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Show ABE MAJORS' MOTHER DIES IN CALIFORNIA SAIT IAICE. Jan. 31. The death of Mrs. L,. l Wagner, mother of the notorious no-torious Ale Majors, was reported yesterday yes-terday from Los Angeles In telegram tele-gram from Ralph Wagner, a son. to Judge J, W. MeKinn. v. According to Judge McKinney, Mrs. Wagner had more grief In her lifetime than is generally ullotted to 11 dozen mothers. Her first husband was executed exe-cuted in Callfornln for murder, ami her two sons by this marriage caused her no end of grief. One son. Arehle Majors, was killed by the police and ' Abe Majors served nearly nineteen I years In tho Utah state prison for the (alleged murder of Captain of Tollce ; William A Brown of Ogden Convinced that Abe Majors was not 1 guilty. Judge McKinney spent three 1 yean In gathering data relative to his I alleged crime., finally succeeding In having him paroled, his sentence being hater terminated He is now understood under-stood to bo in California. The slaying of Captain Brown occurred oc-curred April 30. 1S99. near the hot 1 springs, Just out of ogden, and fol-I fol-I lowing the robbery of a msn named I Fred Hansen a milkman, on the outskirts out-skirts of Brigham City on the prev-I prev-I ious day Captain Brown was a mem-I mem-I ber of a poaao that went after the alleged robbors and In n fight that followed fol-lowed Arehle Majors and Captain Brown were killed Abe Majors was alleged to have fired the fatal shot which caused Captain Brown's death. ' He was tried and found guilty of 1 first-degree murder nnd was sentenced to be shot. Two efforts for a new trial failed, but an appeal to the supreme court finally won him the new hearing and at the second trial he was found guilty of second degree murder, the (jury recommending mercy. Life Im- prisonment was his sentence, however. |